The death of five police officers in Dallas – coming after the shootings in Baton Rouge and Minnesota – overwhelms. How to make sense of the incomprehensible? How to know what to do?

“That was horrible,” people said definitively over and over again in its wake. “People are tired of being lied to," my cousin told me by way of explanation.

But I don’t think this has anything to do with people’s disgust at being lied to unless they are fed up with the lies they tell themselves. ...

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